Our Team

Ed Harshany currently serves as the Director of Innovation and Chief Information Officer at Tactical Air Support. Initially founded on the model of the  US Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) and US Air Force’s Weapons School, Tactical Air Support is redefining government contracting as a non-traditional defense company focused on value-based, innovative, and technology-driven products and services for the US Armed Forces.

He joined Tactical Air in 2023 to pioneer the Tactical Air Support Innovation Center.

Before joining Tactical Air, Ed served 20 years as an Aviator in the US Navy. He served three tours in a forward-deployed F/A-18 squadron, is a US Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) graduate, was an instructor pilot at TOPGUN, and had various additional assignments before retiring from the Navy. Ed has flown over 2500 hours and logged over 500 carrier landings in the F/A-18. After leaving military service, Ed served 10 years as a scientist in the US Air Force Civilian Service Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation community. During his time with the US Air Force, his roles included Computer Scientist, Test Engineer, Test Facility Director, Chief Data Scientist, and Lead Scientist.

Ed earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computing from the Naval Postgraduate School and the University of South Alabama, respectively. He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of South Alabama, a member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) member, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines member, and an active reviewer for academic journals, conferences, and workshops.